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1. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.9
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
2. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.10
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
3. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.11
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
4. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.12
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
5. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.13
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
6. Luftwaffe M1935 Schirmmutze without visor acquired by US soldier
1985.1.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.17
Date:
manufacture: 1939
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
7. Luftwaffe Waffenrock dress uniform jacket acquired by US soldier
1985.1.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.18
Date:
manufacture: 1939
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
8. Seymour Krieger papers
1986.A.0024.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1986.A.0024.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1946
Special Collection:
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…Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.…
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 … material: The Museum’s Library hold a copy of Nazi Germany's war against the Jews (D810.J4 N39 1947), prepared and complied by Seymour Krieger. Accruals…
9. Charlene Schiff papers
Document | Accession Number: 1987.A.0028.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2004
bulk: 1945-1951
… Poland in September 1939, Horochów was occupied by the Russians. In June 1941 Germany declared war on the Soviet Union, and Horochów was occupied by German…
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 … Poland in September 1939, Horochów was occupied by the Russians. In June 1941 Germany declared war on the Soviet Union, and Horochów was occupied by German…
10. Klapholz and Schlesinger family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.A.0156 | RG Number: RG-10.290
Date:
inclusive: 1885-1945
…Irene Schlesinger (later Woods Hofstein, 1921-2016) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Kurt Joseph (1885-1946) and Erna Meier Pelz (1897-1991…
11. Ilse Salomon collection
1988.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.13 | RG Number: RG-10.273
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1958
…Adolf Kaufmann (1873-1942) was born in Ladenburg, Germany to Leopold and Fanny Kaufmann. He was deported from the Preungesheim prison in Frankfurt am…
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 … Adam Fielding, March 2020 Biographical note Adolf Kaufmann (1873-1942) was born in Ladenburg, Germany to Leopold and Fanny Kaufmann. He was deported from…
12. Friedrich and Ruth Frankenthal papers
1988.26.2 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 37
Document | Accession Number: 1988.26.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1875-2002
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … materials, 1900‐1944  Series 2: Photograph album, approximately 1875‐2002 Indexing terms Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Jewish families‐‐Germany‐‐Genealogy…
13. Charlotte Sonnenberg papers
1988.41.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.41.1 | RG Number: RG-10.275
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
…Charlotte Alexander (1910-1999?, née Lichtendorf) was born on 22 January 1910 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany to Regina and Emmanuel Lichtendorf…
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 … following Kristallnacht, identification cards of Charlotte’s from Leipzig, Germany and Shanghai, China, and a photograph of Herbert’ tombstone in Shanghai…
14. Fred Diament papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.56
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
… Buchenwald was organized in 1945 by survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp and was the first pioneer training group formed in Germany after liberation. In…
15. The Spiegel family papers
1988.57.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1988.57.1 | RG Number: RG-10.257
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1949
… (Bertha), and Sam. Originally from Poland, the Spiegel family moved to Leipzig, Germany in the 1920s. Upon the rise of the Nazi regime, the Spiegel brothers…
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 … Leipzig, Germany and the Soviet Union between 1938 and 1949. These documents largely described family member’s emigration and eventual deaths in…
16. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center
1988.64.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.64.1.3
Date:
1939-1945
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.…
17. Schönberger family papers
1988.108.192 Book Enclosure 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1988.108.192
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1967
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …--France. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Jews--Hungary-- Sárvár. Jews--Germany--Frankfurt am Main. Jewish families--Austria--Vienna. Austria--Emigration…
18. Milton Shurr papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.112.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1945
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
19. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection
1988.132.4 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.132.4
Date:
interview: circa 1918-circa 1949
… by classmates, and taunted with antisemitic slurs, such as "Christ killer." Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Welek watched German soldiers…
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 … Afterwards, he worked cleaning soldiers’ barracks. Eventually he returned to his uncle’s house in Bayreuth, Germany where he learned of the death of his family…
20. World War I Honor & Iron Crosses buttonhole ribbon bar with Combatant’s swords awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.1
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: after 1934 July 13-1944
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
21. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1948
issue: after 1914 August 05
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
22. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.3
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
23. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service buttonhole ribbon bar awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.4
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
24. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark, acquired by a US soldier
1988.168.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.168.1
Date:
issue: after 1938 July-before 1945 April
…Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)…
25. Wolfes and Herzfeld family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.172.2
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1942
…The Wolfes family has been traced back to the area near Warburg, Germany around 1650. During the 18th century, the family lived in Mehle. During the…
26. Leo Smoliansky papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.32.1 | RG Number: RG-10.316
Date:
creation: 1939 May 17
…Contains letters relating to Leo Smoliansky's efforts to emigrate from Nazi Germany. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection…
27. Certificate of good conduct
Document | Accession Number: 1989.43.1 | RG Number: RG-10.321
Date:
creation: 1939 February 12
…The "Führungszeugnis" was issued by the President's office, Department 2M, Berlin, Germany, and states that Herbert Israel Moses [donor] has lived…
28. Jakob Altaras papers
1989.53.2 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1989.53.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1943
… communist regime of Yugoslavia. He worked in Zurich, Switzerland for two years before settling in Giessen, Germany, where he served as the president of the…
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 … communist regime of Yugoslavia. He worked in Zurich, Switzerland for two years before settling in Giessen, Germany, where he served as the president of the…
29. Goldstein family papers
1989.89 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.89
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1982
…Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) was born on June 29, 1889 in Herford, Germany to Veterinarian and Eugenie Goldstein. He had two brothers, Arthur and…
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 …: Goldstein family (Berlin, Germany) Extent: 0.1 (4 folders, 1 oversized folder) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
30. Bernard Feingold papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.113
Date:
creation: 1916-1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
31. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish veteran
1989.113.41 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.113.41
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1944
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
…Jewish soldiers--Germany.…
32. Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society passenger cards of the MS St. Louis
1989.115 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 794
Document | Accession Number: 1989.115
Date:
inclusive: 1939
…. After the occupation of France by Nazi Germany in June 1940, the office moved to Marseille and an office was opened in Lisbon, Portugal. HIAS continued to…
33. "Survival in the Lion's Den"
Document | Accession Number: 1989.121 | RG Number: RG-02.019
Date:
1937-1989
…Fred Angress was born on 14 April 1923 in Berlin, Germany. His family fled to England in 1937 in order to avoid Nazi persecution. Angress and his…
34. Henry Einstein collection
Document | Accession Number: 1989.131 | RG Number: RG-10.205
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1955
bulk: 1946-1948
…Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.…
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 …/1948. Item 2: Publication of the Office of the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany titled Landsberg: A Documentary Report. Provides a brief report of the…
35. Wolfgang Mueller papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.133 | RG Number: RG-10.293
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1946
…Letter written on the forced departure of a family from Neuhaus, Germany (1937), letter requesting assistance to obtain a visa to Cuba (1941), and a…
36. Trudy Kirchhausen Turkel papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.153
Date:
1898-1941
…The papers consist of approximately 30 documents relating to the Kirchhausen family's life in Heilbronn, Germany, and their emigration to the United…
37. Ellen M. Fine papers
1989.156 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1989.156
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1941
…Ellen M. Fine was born in 1929 in Bingen, Germany to merchant Moritz Mayer (b. 1896) and Alice Mayer (b. 1902). Her father was imprisoned in…
38. Bela Gondos family papers
1989.202. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1989.202.3
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1995
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
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 …--Budapest. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Hungary. Concentration camp inmates--Germany--Bergen (Celle) Jewish…
39. Yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with the word Jude
1989.208.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.208.3
Date:
use: 1939-1945
…David Mielzynski (later David Mills) was born in 1910 in Schwersenz, Posen (Swarzędz, Poland). He lived in Berlin, Germany, with his wife Liesbeth…
40. David Mielzynski papers
1989.208.8 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1989.208.8
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
…David Mielzynski (later David Mills) was born in 1910 in Schwersenz, Posen (Swarzędz, Poland). He lived in Berlin, Germany, with his wife Liesbeth…
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 … was trapped in Germany and survived for three years hidden in a toolshed on a field in Lichterfelde‐Berlin, 2 miles from SS Headquarters. He was…
41. Ursula Horn papers
1989.213 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.213
Date:
inclusive: 1939-circa 1995
bulk: 1939-1940
… Germany to the United States with their daughter, Ursula, in 1939, and their family members who remained in Berlin and Zerbst, Germany. Biographical…
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 … correspondence documenting Edgar and Gertrude Israel, their immigration from Germany to the United States with their daughter, Ursula, in 1939, and their family…
42. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
…Joseph and Klara (Meyer) Berg lived in the small farming community of Lechenich (Erfstadt), Germany (near Cologne) and had two daughters: Inge (b…
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 …: approximately 1880-1957 Accession number: 1989.232.31 Creator: Berg (Family : Lechenich, Germany) Additional creator: Hermanns (Family : Mönchengladbach, Germany…
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 …, Germany (near Cologne), where her father earned his living as a cattle dealer. The Berg family had lived in that area since the 1600s. Gisela has one older…
43. Photograph of the Kusserow family
Document | Accession Number: 1989.240.3
Date:
1939
… brothers, Willhelm and Karl, near Minden, Germany.…
44. Ernest G. Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.243.322 | RG Number: RG-10.236
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1980
…Ernst Günther Heppner (later, Ernest Guenter,1921-2004) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), to Isidor (1878-c.1942) and Hilda (nee…
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 … Settlement) – Volunteer Corps Jews – Germany – History – 1933‐1945. Jews – Austria – History – 20th century. Jewish refugees – Germany. Jewish refugees…
45. Melanie Keck Spitta papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.246
Date:
creation: circa 1930-1948
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
46. Apron
1989.246.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.246.8
Date:
use: 1930-1939
…Romanies--Germany.…
47. Shoes
1989.246.9_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.246.9 a-b
Date:
use: 1930-1939
…Romanies--Germany.…
48. Irving Heymont papers
1989.259.3 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 75
Document | Accession Number: 1989.259.3 | RG Number: RG-19.038
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1995
… with the 5th Regiment, 71st Infantry Division, nicknamed the Red Circle. They crossed the Rhine River into Germany in March. In early May, Heymont and…
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 …. In the war, Heymont served in Germany and Austria as an officer in the 5th Regiment of the 71st Infantry Division. Towards the end of the war, he…
49. Concentration camp uniform jacket with purple triangle worn by Jehovah’s Witness
1989.271.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.271.1
Date:
use: 1938 September-1945 April
…Max Eugen Hollweg was born on December 7, 1910, in Remscheid, Germany, to Otto and Anna Biesel Hollweg, who were Jehovah’s Witnesses. Max was the…
50. Ochs family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.288 | RG Number: RG-10.386
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1978
… Landrat" (District Magistrate) in Rastatt, Germany along with letters, memoranda, reports, etc., relating to the Holocaust experience, emigration, and…
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 … Landrat” (District Magistrate) in Rastatt, Germany, along with letters, memoranda, reports, etc. relating to the Holocaust experience, emigration, and…